Students also consistently score above average in reading and math tests when compared to other schools in the state.
The data, organized by classroom, included each student's question-by-question answer strings for reading and math tests.
In September 1999, the company admitted that it had incorrectly scored the reading and math tests of more than 8,600 city students.
A Senate committee approved a bill to require reading and math tests of students.
Most of them are students from minority groups, and they score above their district average in reading and math tests.
First, the schools were analyzed for the number of students who achieved above the state average on the reading and math tests.
By the 2005-06 school year, federal law will require all schools to conduct reading and math tests in grades 3 to 8.
"Fully three-quarters supports requiring children to pass a reading and math test for promotion," the association announced.
The program was barred from selecting students on the basis of reading and math tests.
He doesn't try to explain why it performs poorly on reading and math tests.
